I become a paper man

Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:39 pm

4052 words

Makussu looked on with a revering silence at the plain looking scroll that rested on his nightstand. next to it lay a note from his father. “I thought it was about time you started using your heritage to your advantage. Sorry I couldn't teach you myself, but they recruited me for another long term mission. Inside this scroll is many Paper Style ninjutsu, don’t try and use them until you have gotten a basic control over it. Your father,” it read. He picked up the scroll and walked downstairs, his mother already waiting for him with some tea and steamed rice already laid out. As he sat down she started the conversation, noting the scroll that not was put to the side of the table. “ I see that you noticed the scroll your father left, huh? He came last night, but he didn't want to wake you seeing as you had just fallen asleep. He actually only left minutes ago, you just missed him.” She said while he quietly chewed on some rice, chasing it down with a swig of tea. He replied, “That’s just too bad. not that it matters much, he wouldn’t have been able to talk seeing as he would have been re-stocking to leave again.” he said simply, ending the conversation before he could feel disappointment in the fact he hadn’t been able to speak to his father and thank him for the scroll. Sadly it was already too late and he found himself in a slightly gloomy mood by the end of the meal. Excusing himself from the table, he washed his dishes thoroughly before stepping out into the morning light of Konoha. Walking at a leisurely pace towards the training grounds, he noted the vendors and shops beginning to open. Passing by the Dango Cart, he waved at the women who worked there who recognized him from the day before and gave him a small wave before going back to setting up the cart. He continued on his way, feeling the remnants of his bad mood flying away in the morning breeze as he approached his favorite training grounds. As per usual custom, he laid against the tree, opening the scroll and getting to work. He laid there for a half an hour, absorbed by the clan texts, ignoring the chirping birds and the rustling of the trees as he read on lost in the world of paper. Eventually he carefully rolled the scroll back up, sat straight and got to work. According to the scroll, changing one’s chakra into their clan element was similar to activating a regular chakra nature. As long as one had the blood of the Koutaishi flowing through their veins, they should be able to do it. He drew chakra to his core, attempting to change it into something other than the general mass it was. Slowly, as time passed, he felt the change. Somehow the ‘feel’ of his chakra felt more pliant, willing to bend, as it couldn’t break. The feeling was strange, causing him to drop the concentration of chakra in surprise as he felt the strange nature reach his senses. Giving a small smile at his sucess, he repeated the process a couple more times, bringing the chakra to his core and changing it slightly quicker each time, getting used to it’s feel. Eventually, when he felt the chakra responded fast enough he moved on to the next challenge, ready for a tougher problem to tackle. As anyone who had heard of the Koutaishi’s knew, all of the techniques they utilised required paper. As there was a limited supply of trees in the world, thus including paper, this posed them a bit of a problem. So they invented a simple technique that allowed one to create pieces of paper from their own chakra, which quickly became one of the first excercises a Koutaishi learned to use clan jutsu. Thus, he began the paper creating process, channeling chakra down his arm into his palm, watching in slight amazement as a 9x10in sheet of paper appeared in front of his eyes, resting in his palm. Watching it slide off of his palm onto the grass he felt a great sense of accomplishment despite how simple the act was compared to what he would be learning to accomplish. With newfound determinations he began to go through the process once more, experimenting with chakra amounts and noticing the results as the paper increased and decreased in size as he modified the amounts. Eventually as the the sun hit it’s zenith in it’s path he had found that he had preferred a 12X11 sheet of paper and memorized the amount of chakra he had used and walked off towards the market for a bite to eat. Looking for a change of pace besides his usual dango lunch he walked around without any aim before settling on a generic sushi restaurant for food. “Hello, welcome to Sango’s Sushi Corner! How many?” the waitress greeted immediately as Makussu walked into the teahouse. “ Just one today, nobody else.,” he replied neutrally with a small smile. “Ok then, we have a seat already available. Please follow me.” He nodded as they walked towards a small table with a menu already on it. Taking a few minutes to figure out his meal he eventually decided on a miso soup and summer roll platter. Within a few minutes they were delivered to his table and he got to thinking. While the fact that he was able to now generate paper, he still came to one problem. When he finally came to the stage when he began to get to paper manipulation itself there was a problem. Due to the fact that some origami things he would be attempting to fold with his chakra he needed to be able to cut his paper with his own chakra. As he munched on his summer roll he finally had an epiphany and quickly stood up as he quickly paid for his bill and ran through the market streets back to the training grounds, ignoring the stitch he had gained because of it. Sitting down he noticed that his paper had apparently been blown away in the wind he created a small stack he then created a stack and went to work. Converting his chakra to wind he found himself able to cut his chakra made paper, albeit with an annoying jagged line. Sending his chakra through himself again. he found the paper significantly more difficult to cut straightly than the leaf, if only for it’s length. Soon he found that funneling his chakra slightly tighter than the leaf exercise got him through, but then presented him to possibly his largest challenge yet while dealing with his bloodline. While he could simply just generate paper or carry some with him, that would either leaving him with too slow reaction time or in trouble if he were to run out of paper. Thus he began his experiment in manifesting chakra natures. First he drew chakra to his core and changed it to the bendable nature that was paper release. Sending the chakra to his left arm he once again drew more generic chakra and converted it to the wild nature with wind. Sending it to his left asm as well, he quickly drew it out in alarm as the paper chakra was battered by the wild wind chakra, something he definitely did not want to send into the physical plane. He sent less and less wind chakra as he tried the same process again and again as he kept finding the same result albeit on a lesser scale. Tired and frustrated and the sun almost at the end of it’s transit, he walked home annoyed to his families origami shop for dinner and sleep. As he walked inside he found a note saying his mother was out doing some last minute shopping along with a bowl of miso soup and barley tea. Downing the liquid he found a sluggish feeling overcome his as the food entered his system and he laid himself onto the bed and quickly passed out. Awakening in the morning refreshed and the sun shining in his eyes he groggily rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he heard his bones pop and he walked downstairs ready to start his day off. Walking downstairs he found his mother washing dishes along with yet another bowl of miso as always along with an addition of beef negimaki. “Why hello Makussu, I missed you last night apparently. It’s too bad, you seem to be doing that a lot of that lately.,” she stated while putting a dish down into the drying rack. “Well, Makussu said, I’m an official ninja now. I have to take my training even more seriously than before.” “I know, but at least try to spend at least a little time with your family.” Makussu just sighed at that and quickly finished the rest of his breakfast and jogged towards the training grounds. Warming himself up for the day he did some sit ups at the base of his tree and did a laps up and down the tree while attempting to formulate a new theory he could use for his paper cutting. The two chakras evidently could not mix without wind attempting to overpower his paper chakra. However, each individual nature could mix with generic chakra without negative results. He walked down leisurely down the tree to conserve his chakra and then put his theory to the test. First, he molded paper chakra and sent it to his left arm. Then he sent generic chakra to “pin” the paper chakra towards the left side and finally sent the concentrated wind chaka towards the right. With a whoop of success he let the chakra disperse and restarted the process again to figure out a way to shorten the process. Eventually he found that generating both paper and wind chakras with a generic chakra buffer caused the process to be much shorter. Eventually when he was satisfied with the speed he was drawing chakra he went on to the practical application of cutting the paper should he need to when generated. When he generated his new piece of paper he quickly cut the flow and funneled the wind chakra in his arm towards his paper and shouted out with joy as a clean diagonal cut appeared in the paper. As he ran back towards his home he happened to hear a walking paper-boy shouting out his sales boy yelling out a potential phrase to attract customers. “Come one, come all! The Dango Den is now open for business!,” the boy yelled out to the street, mostly garnering him some odd looks but no questions. Noting the announcement he briskly walked in and was quickly recognized by the runner of the dango cart, now in uniform instead of the casual wear while she had worked at the cart. “Hi there! Haven’t seen you in a while. Just you for today?”, he nodded, and his order was quickly taken and he took out his little scroll and leafed through the jutsu’s that actually involved paper manipulation instead of all the chakra control he had been doing, as he was mentally exhausted from doing so. A sip of Earl Gray to calm himself and think rationally with his choice eventually found him settling on the Dance of the Shikigami. A B-Rank technique, it was used as a versatile defence and offence, able to literally create airplanes and butterflies and many others out of paper for all sort of purposes. Suddenly he began to think of the possibilities of what he could do with it while he picked at his summer roll. The jutsu itself was not supposed to be of an offensive nature, but it would not only make him faster, but also to survive life threatening blows like limbs loss. Something he definitely would love to have, he decided. After ordering a bubble tea to go, as the heat was starting to pick up, he leisurely walked towards the training ground, as using shunshin or running would probably give him a stitch in his side, something he did not want to deal with at the moment. He walked through the streets of konoha with thoughts of paper and other jutsu he would try once he was done, and soon found himself in his little clearing again. Once again looking at his scroll very carefully he decided he would play it on the safe side with this technique. It was stating that he had to concentrate his paper chakra throughout his body, and voila, he would be rising off the ground, now made of paper. Not so simple, he thought after he read it, as he had never done so before. He sent generic chakra to his core as practice and then attempted to send it throughout his body. The Chakra made small buildups in some of the major tenketsus within his body, something that would partially stop his transformation into the Shikigami form, which probably involved bloody consequences he did not want to imagine. He tried again, using less chakra, finding that it had less clotting, which was definitely useful as that probably saved him hours speculating on what he was doing wrong. He repeated it over and over until he finally found the right amount that had no clotting that he could detect and then moved to the next step. After one develops their own chakra throughout their body, they would push it out, causing paper to “flake” off their body, thus becoming usable in other jutsu. Something he didn’t exactly need to learn yet, but he wanted to, so why not? He spread his chakra paper thin throughout his body once more, and tried to push it out all at once. He found this to not work very well, as the tenketsu farther away from his core had a lower reaction time than those near it, but then quickly remembered that flaking your entire body away wasn’t exactly the best idea in terms of reforming lost body parts is paper is lost, so he instead tried a specific body part instead. He settled for his legs, and once he sent chakra to his legs along with all other parts of his body to keep it as close to reality when he actually performed it as possible, he made a surge in chakra in his legs and saw a faint blue outline of chakra outline them for a couple of seconds before dissipating. Not very useful in this form but in its paper counterpart….well he was about to prove it was much better converted. Suddenly, he hesitated. What if he messed up? He could end up ending his career with this jutsu, if he didn’t spread his chakra correctly. He could lose limb, his life, or some other horrible thing. Suddenly he realised the track he was going down and stopped himself quickly. When he became a shinobi he knew his life was going to become dangerous, he couldn’t stop with this jutsu just waiting to be used. His resolve strengthened, he brought his chakra towards his core and converted it into the malleable nature that was unique to paper. He spread it evenly throughout his body, flared the chakra through his legs, and stated in as calm a voice he could, “Shikigami no Mai.” The effects were noticeable instantly, his legs literally scattered in the wind, floating around him, and his entire body was suddenly composed of paper, rough edges on his face and torso showing the places where the outlines of it were noticeable. Within him however, there was some other changes. Within his core, paper chakra was being generated alongside the regular version, keeping the jutsu running without his constant focus and also supplying him with paper chakra already converted, something he definitely would be using. Suddenly he came to a big problem. While it was great he had just walked through the doorway to paper, he now had no legs to walk with. This was strangely fixed easily as he tried to “will” himself to move and quickly would himself moving forward, his paper trailing behind him like a loyal puppy. He moved around the clearing with his new “willed” way of moving, finding he was moving very fast, even as fast as shunshin if he tried. Quite an amazing thing he thought as he glided around the field, not having nearly as much trouble with the exercise as he had thought he would. Eventually he glided back over to the scroll and checked it again to double check his instructions, set it down with hands now made of paper and then drew all of the paper chakra throughout his body back into his core, where he let it disperse and slowly change back into it’s generic nature. His paper surrounding him drew back to his body as he did so and grafted back to his body, leaving him with legs once more, which he promptly collapsed on after his transformation once more. Checking his entire body to make sure it was all flesh, he let out a whoop for joy when he confirmed he was still all there. “Eat that world! Makussu Koutaishi is now a paper man!” With that he shunshined back into the market district, hopping up on rooftops to avoid civilian traffic as the evening caravans were coming in and quickly corrected himself as he realised he had been sprinting towards the library instead of his house. He mentally face palmed but that didn’t stop the sense of pride within him as he entered his home which currently had the aroma of fried something in the air as he stepped inside, his mother already waiting for him. “So how did my little ninja go with his technique?”, she asked with suspense in her voice. Makussu smirked and stated “Shikigami no Mai”, before the room crowded with paper and his legs disappeared, but the smile on his face remained. His mother quickly close between them and gave him a heartwarming hug he appreciated very deeply before whispering in his ear, “I’m proud of you, Makussu. I’m so very proud of you.” With that emotionally moment quickly over, he was dragged over to the table and was eating the remains of his meal before he even realised it, he was so hungry. He soon sent himself to bed with calamine tea, but soon found he couldn’t sleep. His head was filled with thoughts of his new technique, along with all his new techniques he would be able to use with it now usable. But still one thought lay in his mind, the fact that he hadn’t officially completed it yet. According to the scroll, one was only truly done when they had managed to fold paper without direct connection with one’s hands into some form of origami. So he found himself up all night until he fell into a fitful sleep. He woke up in the morning with the sun barely over the mountains thoroughly exhausted and completely convinced it was a sign that he had to complete it. He quickly made himself breakfast and soon found himself outside his door, bringing a basic origami book and his scroll with him and soon shunshined away towards his training ground fighting off his exhaustion despite his recent rest. As he arrived in his clearing he did some stretching for a few minutes in an attempt to wake himself again, being half asleep and doing the Shikigami no Mai would not be a very good idea. Eventually his mind cleared and his body began to respond like normal again he decided to begin where he had left off the other day. Sending chakra throughout his body he uttered, “Shikigami no Mai,” and soon his legs dissipated into the air leaving his now paper body to float in the air, ready to finish the long process. He referenced his scroll to double check his instructions and began to start the process. According to his instructions, he could manipulate the paper that now lazily floated around him by sending chakra towards the area where his legs would be, which would then reach towards his paper, which would draw his chakra towards him and mold the paper. Thus he began to do as specified in his scroll and felt his paper chakra being siphoned towards his surrounding paper, forming what felt to him as little “chunks” of paper which all seemed to share a common tenketsu. Then he tried an experiment with it. Channeling paper chakra through his new tenketsu, he sent it to what would have been his upper left leg and to his surpriese he found his paper all gain a fold on their upper left corners. Soon he found that his creases could be controlled by the amount of chakra put into it. Also, depending on where he sent his chakra, he could change from where he began his folds and could make it fold in half by sending it to either the upper or lower parts of his “legs”. Then came the hard part. Makussu would have to make a simple origami figure in less than five seconds. Thus he lay against his tree and perused his book for a design he could use. Eventually he decided on a design he liked and got to work.In quick succession as he could, he made both of the ends of the now triangular paper fold into each other to leave a crease on it, then folded his center corner so that some of it stick out at the top. Then pushing the lower layers back down, he made a squash fold in both sides, along with pushing down the crease he had left sticking out and let the tip out, creating the figures head. Finally, he did the mountain fold creating two halves and then made two diagonal folds forming it’s wings. With that, he now had a pack of paper butterflies floating around, completely useless but still pretty impressive in his opinion. Packing away a few in his pockets, he noticed one that had been hovering above his head and decided he would just leave it there, a little strange but it didn’t matter to him. He walked away towards the village where he was going to buy himself a drink when he heard a sound of a scuffle starting up nearby. Peering around the corner of a general tailor’s store, he noticed a drunken man harassing a young couple and his demeanor seemed to become increasingly violent as he continued to yell.What concerned him the most though, was the sword hanging from the man’s waist and he activated the Shikigami no Mai as a precaution. “You jerk!” Taking my girlfriend, my job! Well now it’s my turn to take something from you!” At this he began to draw his sword and Makussu shunshined at him and tackled him, the man slicing through his arm in surprise, which exploded into sheets of paper eliciting a few shouts of terror from the civilians around him. The man used the opportunity to get up while his arm reformed to rush at him again, but he floated backwards and with a yell of “Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!” flung the drunken man into a wall with a strong gust of wind. Perhaps it was too much force for such an opponent but he didn't really care. He had attacked a civilian and as a ninja he must protect the people from harm. “Are you alright,?” Makussu asked turning around to the couple whom had went silent. “Oh yes, thank you.” the man said holding his lightly sobbing girlfriend. “He just came out of nowhere and started harassing us. We don’t know him at all.” Makussu nodded and peeled the man’s unconscious body whink stank of alcohol and began to drag him off to the Hokage’s office. After all, trash like this couldn’t wander the streets and hurt people. He was a ninja, a ninja who had to do do his duty. Either way, it still sucked carrying drunken men to their arrest, even if you're a paper person.

+V6 Dance of the Shikigami

+20 stat points

Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:01 am

The linked jutsu takes 4000 words to learn, so you may increase the word count in this post to reach this point or you may edit it to make so you did not fully learn the jutsu and I can approve you for word count for progress towards learning the jutsu, your choice.

Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:27 am

Bump, raised the word count above 4000

Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:58 am

Approved.

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